Electronic sourcing system

摘要

An electronic sourcing system (5) comprising:
a database (36) containing data relating to items associated with at least two vendors maintained so that selected portions of the database may be searched separately;
means (50,52) for searching for matching items in the selected portions of the database;
means (44A, 110, 120) for building a requisition that includes data relating to selected matching items; and
means (44A, 114) for processing the said requisition to generate purchase orders for selected matching items.